Studio in Acampo, CA
Adam Newman was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1984 and currently resides in Acampo, California. He is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist known for his works created from a hypothetical perspective the artist refers to as “God view” in which we see the absurdity of man-made reality and our human response through the eyes of God.
Newman’s artistic identity centers on the objective of examining man-made objects and sociological constructs through earthy colored pastel paintings and thought provoking three dimensional pieces. The work offers scenes of magical realism with each piece to be viewed as one point in the vast universe being observed through the eyes of an omniscient being. The artist exhibits a proclivity for recurring motifs in his creations he labels as: Obstructions, False Fronts, Others, and Handmades, imbuing his pieces with a sense of symbolic depth and allegorical richness. In his early career he developed many of the skills and ideas that are prominent in his work today by translating his subconscious resulting in varying degrees of two dimensional realism that produced bodies of work such as “The American Realist” and “EXPOSED”. After exhausting this process Newman moved on to more relevant, engaging, and outward-focused content in which he hopes to encourage social and economic change.
Adam Newman’s work has exhibited at venues such as The Emporium in Knoxville, Tennessee; Where Ya Art Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana; and Studio Gallery in San Francisco, California. Newman has also designed and executed large scale mural projects across the southeastern United States in Nashville, Knoxville, and New Orleans.